Family tree Wolberink Hagedoorn » Johannes Fikkers (1874-1954)

Day of marriage April 22, 1909

• The temperature on April 22, 1909 was between 6.0 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1909: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.8 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
  • April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
  • June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
  • September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
  • November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.

Day of death February 11, 1954

• The temperature on February 11, 1954 was between 0.7 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
  • January 20 » In the United States, the National Negro Network is established with 40 charter member radio stations.
  • March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
  • May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
  • June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
  • September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.

Day of burial February 15, 1954

• The temperature on February 15, 1954 was between -0.2 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 2, 1952 to October 13, 1956 the cabinet Drees II, with Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1954: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 10.6 million citizens.
  • February 18 » The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
  • April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
  • August 10 » At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Saint Lawrence Seaway is held.
  • August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
  • September 11 » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
  • September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1947 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach (b. 1884)
• 1948 » Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
• 1949 » Axel Munthe, Swedish doctor (b. 1857)
• 1958 » Ernest Jones, Welsh neurologist and psychoanalyst (b. 1879)
• 1963 » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1872)
• 1963 » Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1932)